Glossary (stub)

Transformer
Architecture introduced in Vaswani et al..
Diffusion model
Generative model trained to reverse a noising process; common starting point: DDPM.
GAN
Generator + discriminator adversarial training; primary source: Goodfellow et al.
Agentic AI
LLM + tools + a control loop; see ReAct.
Distillation
Teacher-student compression technique described in Hinton et al..
Vector similarity search
Nearest-neighbor lookup over embedding vectors; common reference: FAISS.
Open weights
See OSI discussion: Open Weights.
Open Source AI
See OSI definition: Open Source AI Definition 1.0.